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Unit III Study Guide
Unit III study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First president of the Republic of Texas | Sam Houston |
| Inventor of the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| Mexican president / Dictator | General Santa Anna |
| He coined the term "Manifest Destiny" | John O'Sullivan |
| General sent to provoke a war with Mexico | Zachary Taylor |
| Example of a "Mountain Man" that helped explore the West | Kit Carson |
| Inventor of the steel-tipped plow | John Deere |
| Mormon leader who led his people westward | Brigham Young |
| U.S. president most associated with Manifest Destiny | James K. Polk |
| Whig candidate for the election of 1844 | Henry Clay |
| This territory was divided with Britain | Oregon Territory |
| This territory was independent before joining the U.S. | Texas |
| This was the last land acquired to make up the 48 contiguous states | Gadsden Purchase |
| Purchased from Spain in 1819 | Florida |
| First land added to the United States | Louisiana |
| Texas gained its independence from this nation | Mexico |
| Oregon territory was divided at this latitude | Southern 49th Parallel |
| Treaty that ended the Mexican-American War | Guadeloupe Hidalgo |
| This author protested the Mexican-American War as unjust in his essays on Civil Disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
| Term: A candidate who unexpectedly wins nomination of their party | Dark Horse |
| Mexico was forced to recognize this river as the border with Texas | Rio Grande River |
| This law granted 160 acres for $10 to help promote western settlement | Homestead Act |
| The slogan "Fifty-four forty or fight!" referred to U.S. desire to acquire this territory | Oregon Territory |
| Gold was discovered in this territory in 1848, igniting a rush of settlers | California (Sutter's Mill) |
| Voters of the territory decide on the issue of slavery | Popular Sovereignty |
| Position of most southern democrats on slavery | Pro-Slavery |
| Against slavery everywhere | Abolition |
| No slavery in the territories but leave it where it existed | Free soil |
| Case that stated Congress could not limit slavery in the territories | Dred Scott v. Stanford |
| Used popular sovereignty to decide slavery in the Mexican Cessian | Compromise of 1850 |
| No slavery in the L.A. Territory above 36 degrees 30 minutes latitude | Missouri Compromise |
| Used popular sovereignty in the Louisiana Territory | Kansas - Nebraska Act |
| Proposed restoring the terms of the MIssouri Compromise for all the territories in order to avoid war. Rejected by the Republicans | Crittenden Compromise |
| Slave who sued for his freedom in court but lost | Dred Scott |
| Northern democrat who proposed the Kansas - Nebraska Act | Stephen Douglass |
| Abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin | Hariet Beecher Stowe |
| Abolitionist who led a raid on the Harper's Ferry arsenal to arm slaves | John Brown |
| Republican candidate and winner of the 1860 election | Abraham Lincoln |
| Party that was completely opposed to slavery | Liberty Party |
| Party that most supported the expansion of slavery | Democratic Party |
| Party that was primarily anti-immigrant (Nativist) | The Know Nothings |
| Had a free soil position on slavery and formed to opposed the Kansas - Nebraska Act | Republican Party |
| Most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 for the North | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Doctrine of Stephen Douglass who attempted to say that slavery could be limited in the territories despite the Dred Scott decision | Freeport Doctrine |
| Seven southern states seceded from the Union shortly after this event | Election of Abraham Lincoln |
| Union general associated with "Total War" and the "March To The Sea" through Georgia | William T. Sherman |
| Became president after Lincoln's assassination and later impeached | Andrew Johnson |
| Commanding Union general who led the North to victory Later became president | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Republican candidate in 1876 became president in exchange for ending reconstruction | Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Commanding general of the Confederate Army | Rober E. Lee |
| Coutious Union general. Was replaced. Ran against Lincoln in 1864 | George McClellan |
| President of the Confederate states of America | Jefferson Davis |
| Term for northerners who came to the South for office of profit during Reconstruction | Carpet Baggers |
| Term for members of Lincoln's party who wanted to abolish slavery and punish the south | Radical Republican |
| Term for white southerners who cooperated with Reconstruction | Scallawags |
| Term for northern Democrats in the North who wanted to make peace with the south | Peace Democrats (Copperheads) |
| Where the southern surrender ended the war | Court of Appomattox |
| Turning point battle due to the number of confederate casualties | Gettysburg |
| This battle completed Union capture of the Mississippi River | Vicksburg |
| Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamations after this battle | Antietam |
| First battle between northern and southern armies | Bull Run |
| Term: Drafting men into the military | Conscription |
| Term: Separation of the races | Segrigation |
| Term: Granting a pardon, forgiving a crime | Amnesty |
| Term: Right to be confronted with evidence of the crime or be released | Habeus Corpus |
| Lincoln's plan for Reconstructions was harsh or lenient ? | Lenient |
| Which side in the Civil War emphasized states rights? | South / Confederate |
| The ORIGINAL purpose of the war fro the North was to ... | Preserve the Union |
| The ... had more resources and material advantages in the war | North |
| His vision of the "New South" meant building factories like the North | Henry Grady |
| The northern military strategy during the war was called ... | Anaconda Plan |
| Amendment gave African - Americans citizenship. Protects vivil rights | Fourteenth (14) |
| ... gave half their harvest as rent for the land | Sharcroppers |
| ... tests were used to deny suffrage to the freedman after the war | Literacy |
| This event marked the end of Congressional Reconstruction | Compromise of 1877 |
| This 1896 decision upheld Jim Crow Laws enforcing segregation | Civil Rights Cases (Plessy v. Ferguesson) |
| Amendment that granted suffrage to African - American males | Fifteenth (15) |
| Term for slave states that remained in the Union | Border states |
| The first 7 southern states seceded after this event | Election of Abraham Lincoln |
| "With malice towards none" best represented this politician's view for Reconstruction | Abraham Lincoln |
| The south's attempt to get help from Europe during the war is called | Cotton Diplomacy |
| Law passed to try to prevent President Johnson from firing Secretary of War Edwin Stanton | Tenure of office act |
| Scandal of Grant's presidency involving transcontinental railroad | Credit Mobilier |
| Passage of these laws in southern states during Johnson's administration led to Radical Reconstruction | Black Codes |
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